with initiatives being launched to recognise the community's rights one recent example is edinburgh university where new students are being encouraged to wear badges with the words he she or they indicating how they want to be referred to the students' union campaign is part of an effort to avoid missed gendering however it says students should not use the term preferred emphasizing it's not a preference but in this sesame we debated the issue with human rights activist peter tatchell and radio talk show host john god. it's people do not choose to be trans they don't make this decision about gender reassignment career without very very serious long protracted thought and indeed is often agonizing they face often rejection by their parents being thrown out of home and very high rates of suicide and attempted suicide so this is not a decision that a young person takes lightly and if they make the decision but they feel that they are one gender or another i think we should respect that i don't think it's a big deal to it's about common decency just about being kind and compassionate to other peop

with initiatives being launched to recognise the community's rights one recent example is edinburgh university worse new students are being encouraged to wear badges with the words he she or they indicating how they want to be referred to the students' union campaign is part of an effort to avoid so-called mis gendering however it says students should not use the term preferred emphasizing it's not a preference but a necessity we debated the issue with human rights activist peter tatchell and radio talk show host john god. trans people do not choose to be trans they don't make this decision about gender reassignment career without very very serious long protracted thought and indeed is often agonizing they face often rejection by their parents being thrown out of home and very high rates of suicide and attempted suicide so this is not a decision that a young person takes lightly and if they make the decision but they feel that they are one gender or another i think we should respect that i don't think it's a big deal too it's about common decency just about being kind and compassionate to othe

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her struggles came when she was the same age as many of the students now at university in her edinburghsity in her it's definitely something that lots of young people are going through, and having someone like her talk about it can only be a good thing. if everybody's open about it, it kind of will help other people that are struggling come out. it kind of will help other people mental health charities have also welcomed her openness. i think it's very brave for any politician, leader, to come out and speak about their own struggles with a mental health problem, because the reality is that especially in politics, mental health is still seen by many as a weakness. mental health is still seen on friday, in a bbc interview, ruth davidson was asked about a move to westminster. ruth davidson was asked myjob's here in scotland. ruth davidson was asked i want to retain my seat in edinburgh central in 2021. i want to be the next first minister of scotland. the first conservative first minister of scotland. that's always been my aim. minister of scotland. the fact she and her partner are soon ex

her struggles came when she was the same age as many of the students now at university in her edinburgh are going through, and having someone like her talk about it can only be a good thing. if everybody's open about it, it kind of will help other people that are struggling come out. mental health charities have also welcomed her openness. i think it's very brave for any politician, leader, to come out and speak about their own struggles with a mental health problem, because the reality is that especially in politics, mental health is still seen by many as a weakness. on friday, in a bbc interview, ruth davidson was asked about a move to westminster. myjob's here in scotland. i want to retain my seat in edinburgh central in 2021. i want to be the next first minister of scotland. the first conservative first minister of scotland. that's always been my aim. the fact she and her partner are soon expecting a baby is another reason. in three years' time, the voters will decide whether ruth davidson achieved her goal of becoming scotland's first minister. her political ambitions, we've now le

so we decided to team up with fellow scientists from the university of edinburgh and queen mary in londonls, it was able to identify hidden particles in this data we couldn't see before. particularly hidden said —— sequences of evolutionary steps that are common to many patients. this is very exciting because if we find, if we identified these hidden sequences of events, that means that if we see a new patient, where we only see a portion of that sequence, that means we can make a prediction what we expect to see next. how could that change then the future of cancer treatment? i think that's very exciting because the whole idea is to stay one step ahead of the cancer. so we want doctors to have methods and tools that allow them to intervene very early. or manage the disease, control it. if we are looking to the future, this is an early start, we need more —— more validation etc. but we are looking toa validation etc. but we are looking to a future where doctors will know what is going to happen next. they can design the best treatment for a given patient. is this with cancer thatis given